Researchers find high error rates in commercial speech recognition systems
Microsoft and MITRE release framework to help fend off adversarial AI attacks
IBM and Pfizer claim AI can predict Alzheimer’s onset with 71% accuracy
Motional resumes self-driving robo-taxi service with Lyft in Las Vegas
Amazon embraces end-to-end models to improve Alexa’s speech recognition
TeleSense raises $10.2 million to monitor crops with AI and sensors
Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers
Data privacy startup Mine raises $9.5 million and expands to the U.S.
Sam’s Club expands autonomous floor-sweeping robots to all U.S. stores
Anyscale raises $40 million to launch a managed service for distributed computing workloads
Hewlett Packard Enterprise will build a $160 million supercomputer in Finland
MIT CSAIL’s AI revives dead languages it hasn’t seen before
Salesforce’s Simulation Cards spell out uses, risks, and bias to make AI models more transparent
Microsoft researchers develop assistive eye-tracking AI that works on any device
Microsoft details T-ULRv2 model that can translate between 94 languages
Zest raises $15 million to reduce loan algorithm bias
4iQ raises $30 million for AI that attacks the trade in stolen digital identities
PhiSat-1 satellite uses AI to remove clouds from Earth images
Merck tests delivering temperature-controlled medicine via drone
DeepMind open-sources the FermiNet, a neural network that simulates electron behaviors
Google Assistant-enabled smart displays gain support for multiple accounts
Facebook’s open source M2M-100 model can translate between 100 different languages
AiFi raises $15 million to accelerate cashierless retail
Unit21 raises $13 million to turn AI into a fraud-fighting machine
Google Cloud launches Lending DocAI to streamline mortgage applications with AI
Silent Eight leverages AI to detect and solve financial crime
Google details how it’s using AI and machine learning to improve search
Cruise receives permit to test autonomous cars without safety drivers in San Francisco
Nvidia will supply hardware for Leonardo, a 10-exaflop supercomputer
Google’s Smart Fill autocompletes Sheets columns using AI
Whisper’s hearing aids use AI to boost speech and reduce noise
River raises $10.4 million for privacy-preserving news recommendations
Sonrai Security raises $20 million to protect public clouds with automation
98point6 nabs $118 million for its AI-powered telemedicine platform
Balto raises $10 million to analyze call center conversations with AI
Google’s breast cancer-predicting AI research is useless without transparency, critics say
Atlassian details AI features headed to Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket
Microsoft explains how it improved automatic image captioning in Azure Cognitive Services
